Acute spontaneous aortic pathologies associated with intramural hematoma: Can a differential diagnosis be made by imaging techniques?;Patologie acute spontanee dell'aorta toracica caratterizzate da ematoma intramurale: È possibile la diagnosi differenziale con tecniche di imaging?

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 20-33

  Casolo, Filippo ^a,c   Dore, Roberto ^b   Cardinale, Luciano ^a   Fauda, Valerio ^a  

^a A O San Carlo Borromeo   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intramural hematoma; Multimodality imaging; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036369498     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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